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List of English-language metaphors
A list of metaphors in the English language organised by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels". ''Metaphor'' may also be used for any rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association, comparison or resemblance. In this broader sense, antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy and simile would all be considered types of metaphor. Aristotle used both this sense and the regular, current sense above.〔''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'' (1992) pp.653–55: "A rhetorical figure with two senses, both originating with Aristotle in the 4c BC: (I) All figures of speech that achieve their effects through association, comparison and resemblance. Figures like antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy and simile are (that sense ) all species of metaphor. () this sense is not current, ..."〕
With metaphor,
Unlike analogy, specific interpretations are not given explicitly.
==Animals==
*800 lb gorilla
*Albatross (metaphor)
*Belling the cat
*Blind men and an elephant
*Boiling frog
*Butterfly effect
*Camel's nose
*Chicken or the egg
*Dead cat bounce
*Duck trick
*Elephant in the room
*Beating a dead horse
*Four Asian Tigers
*His Eye is on the Sparrow
*Jumping the gun
*Letting the cat out of the bag
*Mama grizzly
*Monkey see, monkey do
*Ostrich effect
*Reverse ferret
*Seeing pink elephants
*The Sheep and the Goats
*Snake venom
*Spherical cow
*Turkeys voting for Christmas
*Turtles all the way down
*White elephant
*Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
*You have two cows
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